by "Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
Published 04/20/2017 at 18:19
by "Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
Published 04/20/2017 at 18:19
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STARS: 6
These are all glaring issues. This is a year old car that has never been in a wreck. The Cruze is a poorly made car.
"Ike" (untitledcarshow)
04/20/2017 at 18:22, STARS: 2
When your build quality makes a mirage look good.
(Disclaimer I like the mirage)
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
04/20/2017 at 18:23, STARS: 1
Makes my work Taco look like an E-class
"Milky" (jordanmielke)
04/20/2017 at 18:25, STARS: 6
I thought this post was about fake windows. Give it another negative for that.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
04/20/2017 at 18:25, STARS: 8
Doesn’t the Cruze start at $17k? Doesn’t seem unreasonable for a highly affordable car, especially when the average is twice that amount now.
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
04/20/2017 at 18:25, STARS: 0
The rear seat room is fine for a compact car.
"Jonee" (Jonee)
04/20/2017 at 18:26, STARS: 6
But, all those awards...
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
04/20/2017 at 18:26, STARS: 2
I think Tucker still holds the Oppo record for most unreliable new-ish cheap car, right? I mean the darn thing caught on fire. lol
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
04/20/2017 at 18:26, STARS: 0
Don’t forget the awesome seat cloth dash trim.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
04/20/2017 at 18:28, STARS: 0
Is anything rattling or falling off?
"Ike" (untitledcarshow)
04/20/2017 at 18:28, STARS: 1
That’s basically a Ferrari ! also hiabusa swap it already!
"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
04/20/2017 at 18:29, STARS: 0
I wonder if Cruzez made elsewhere are better
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
04/20/2017 at 18:30, STARS: 8
REAL ACTORS, NOT PEOPLE.
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
04/20/2017 at 18:31, STARS: 0
Yeah what the fuck? Is that made outta backpacks or something?
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
04/20/2017 at 18:33, STARS: 0
I’m pretty sure it’s the same cloth as the stuff on the top of the driver’s seat.
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
04/20/2017 at 18:33, STARS: 0
Mine is an 1LT RS sun&sound so it’s loaded, but not fully. Stickers at $26k, which is borderline offensive.
"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
04/20/2017 at 18:35, STARS: 3
Cheap small car is cheap small car. In other news, water is wet, more at 11.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
04/20/2017 at 18:36, STARS: 5
Not disagreeing at that pricepoint, but I guess at the end of the day they all roll off the same production line.
"Probenja" (probenja)
04/20/2017 at 18:37, STARS: 1
Here’s your problem:
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
04/20/2017 at 18:40, STARS: 0
Noooo, I’m making it into an offroader! :P
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
04/20/2017 at 18:43, STARS: 0
It is, and it’s awful.
"Ike" (untitledcarshow)
04/20/2017 at 18:43, STARS: 2
exo cage that smart!
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
04/20/2017 at 18:45, STARS: 1
My current plan is lift kit, some sort of offroad tyre (having issues sourcing those in such a small wheel size), some rally lights, and if I can, a winch.
"Ike" (untitledcarshow)
04/20/2017 at 18:49, STARS: 0
Harbor fright has cheep off road lights, winches are cheap on the CL
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
04/20/2017 at 18:50, STARS: 8
You remind me of the guy I met when I was working at my first dealer job. He pulls in with his 2002 Neon, leaves it running in park, gets out, then puts his hand on the open door’s upper frame.
“Feel that? It shouldn’t be vibrating like that!”
My service manager tells him “Its a $12,000 Neon, not a $50,000 Mercedes” and sent him on his way.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
04/20/2017 at 18:50, STARS: 0
Stop enabling me!!! I so want to have this project done before the snow falls again. Turns out Illinois has a lot of offroad parks!
"fintail" (fintail)
04/20/2017 at 18:50, STARS: 2
Looks on par with a 100K Tesla.
The C-pillar DLO fail bugs me more.
"Svart Smart, traded in his Smart" (svartsmart)
04/20/2017 at 18:51, STARS: 0
My Smart was like that. Once I vacuumed the dash instead of dusting it.
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
04/20/2017 at 18:53, STARS: 2
Bruh the car is nearly $30k. They should at least TRY
"Ike" (untitledcarshow)
04/20/2017 at 18:54, STARS: 2
Did not know that and no I will always enable bad decision making
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/20/2017 at 18:55, STARS: 1
Remember when GM was selling F-bodies in Japan? They had a separate inspection line that would fix all the crap like this before the car shipped because the Japanese consumer would never tolerate such appalling build quality. The problem here is that we accept this low level of build quality as being normal and therefore deem it acceptable.
My Mazda5 was $17K when new. Yeah, the materials are not exactly BMW/MB/Porsche-like in quality, but at that price I fully understand. However, it is solidly constructed and really hasn’t given me any trouble in the nearly 5 years I’ve owned it.
I like the Cruze (as well as a number of other domestic products) and I would like to support the domestic auto industry, but it’s stuff like this that makes me take my money elsewhere. No amount of tariffs or other punitive measures will make me spend my hard-earned money on second-rate products in order to prop up a company just because they’re based here. We can obviously do better, but when we accept mediocrity the manufacturer has -zero- reason to change their behavior.
"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
04/20/2017 at 18:58, STARS: 1
The worst part is that I want to keep the project under wraps from Miss Tesla...see how long it takes for her to notice.
Aw who am I kidding, she reads my posts! :P
"facw" (facw)
04/20/2017 at 19:03, STARS: 0
That looks a lot better to my eyes.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/20/2017 at 19:09, STARS: 0
Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t everything designed in CAD nowadays? I’m normally not one to even care too much about gaps, but you’d think that it would be easy to avoid all sorts of gaps and interferences.
"Stapleface" (patrickgruden)
04/20/2017 at 19:48, STARS: 0
You know, I want to like the Cruz. But then I realize that the Mazda 3 exists, and is in the same pricing ballpark. Just can’t see why someone would willingly pick most cars in that class over the 3 (says the idiot who bought a Civic).
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
04/20/2017 at 19:59, STARS: 0
You won’t need a winch. You can just drag it out if you get stuck.
"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
04/20/2017 at 20:03, STARS: 0
Guy then rolls up in a $30k Jeep with brand new trim falling off and the engine burning oil.
“It’s a $30k Jeep not a $130k G Wagon.”
"bob and john" (bobandjohn)
04/20/2017 at 20:03, STARS: 1
The cruze was always an overpriced pile. Dont see anything new here
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
04/20/2017 at 20:15, STARS: 0
THANK YOU
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
04/20/2017 at 21:00, STARS: 2
Its a $30k version of a $16k car... adding amenities to a cheap car doesn’t change what makes it cheap in the first place.
"Sweet Trav" (thespunbearing)
04/20/2017 at 21:01, STARS: 0
Is the Model S a piece? cause they have far worse build quality
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
04/20/2017 at 21:15, STARS: 0
But I bet they charge way more in Japan though. Every person I met who came from Asia, their first comment is how cheap cars are here, luxury or basic.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
04/20/2017 at 21:23, STARS: 0
Probably true, as I’m sure it was a premium product over there. But if Mazda can make a well-built $21,000 car, why can’t GM make a $26,000 one of equal quality? It’s all about what the customer is willing to accept, and I guess Americans don’t hold their domestic manufacturers to a very high standard.
"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
04/20/2017 at 21:30, STARS: 0
Wrong. Jkm’s Jetta is worse. It’s close.
"jmgadget" (jmgadget)
04/20/2017 at 22:39, STARS: 0
*Youngstown/Akron’s most skilled craftsmen. Opposite side of the state.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
04/21/2017 at 06:18, STARS: 0
never looked that closely at them
"EL_ULY" (uly)
04/21/2017 at 08:34, STARS: 0
ay, que horror!
lol “glaring issues” no mames carnal :]
I’ve seen some real shit in my day, things like this are a walk in the park homie
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
04/21/2017 at 08:55, STARS: 1
Oh shut up with this whole “from an on enthusiast perspective” thing. Valid complaints non enthusiasts would have have to do with build quality like that (my non enthusiast friend pointed out the panel gaps, asking if the car had been in an accident) and plenty of non enthusiasts would consider a car where all of the buttons inside intermittently just don’t work sometimes, or a car that occasionally doesn’t start for no reason at all problematic. I like you dude, but you’re being totally thick skulled about this for no reason. You wanted a perspective from a Cruze owner, you got one. Don’t be like “no you’re wrong” BRUH I DD’D IT FOR OVER A YEAR. Even the guy who liked his was like “yeah I needed to replace the turbo, PCV valve, and water pump” ON A CAR THAT’S 4 YEARS OLD.
The Cruze is a mediocre car by any standards at all. It’s a decent looking car, yes, and the upgraded stereo is nice when it works, but other than that, it has nothing going for it.
"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
04/21/2017 at 08:59, STARS: 2
And I want to add, I’m not saying “WHY BUY A CRUZE WHEN YOU CAN GET A USED JAGUAR WHATEVERTHEFUCK FOR THE SAME PRICE?!”
I’m saying. Buy literally anything else, a Nissan Altima, Toyota Corolla, ANYTHING.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
04/21/2017 at 09:08, STARS: 0
I worked at a Chevy dealership for over a year. You don’t want a Cruze. I will repeat: you do not want a Cruze. Turbo and head issues abound and the rate at which these cars devolve into a creaky mess of fitment issues and detaching plastic clips is insane. If it were a 1998 Chevy lumina it would be part for the course but a car that is less than 3 years old is ridiculous.
"EL_ULY" (uly)
04/21/2017 at 09:20, STARS: 0
Oh I believe all these things happened and could happen to someone if they did buy one. All are not guaranteed but the level of variables over shadows all cars and the issues they face sometimes as well.
“oh don’t buy X car because mine _____”
I could easily make a huge list on my own cars and your 300. ( mega deja vu right now ). Nothing will be 100% guaranteed to occur homie, you know this.
Shit breaks on brand new cars, 4 year old cars, 10 year old cars. Luxury cars and eco cars, new and old have the same sort of gaps and paint issues. The way you perceive that is all on the buyer/owner. Personally, that sort of thing would bother me 10 years ago easily. I had a huge box of cleaning items and all that. Mega conscious of those sort of things. Cars are so meh to me nowadays that a PCV, water pump and little things like that are gifts from above compared to network communication failures, hybrid inverter issues, active diff issues, etc.
I like this little Cruze. Issues included, it seems normal. I like the looks, it’s basic. May not be the best in class but meh, I’ll take one and would recommend it. A couple of minor cosmetic touches and it seems like a neato DD.
You have a good eye for cars and please never change.
I’m running this new anti-enthusiast mood that seems very comfortable. It doesn’t help anything here and I need got some sort of cream to cover that up lol.
"EL_ULY" (uly)
04/21/2017 at 09:27, STARS: 0
See that’s the thing with “working at a dealership”. You see all the issues, but also, some don’t see all them. I’ve worked for 6 brands and know all the things that happens to them all. I also know that if I purchase one of the cars that i’ve become an expert at (hint: I have) I know that it’s a potential but probably will not encounter them all. Some things, but now all. For the Cruze, all the issues seem mega cake to solve.
You also know that brand new cars also come in for some odd issues they shouldn’t be having. Happens in pretty much all makes
"Deal Killer - Powered by Focus" (dealkiller-ii)
04/22/2017 at 19:15, STARS: 0
If he was talking about Jeeps, fine. But the only GM products assembled in Toledo are transmissions, thank you very much.
"G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3" (gbodyman)
04/24/2017 at 23:11, STARS: 0
Thanks for finally saying that Gen 1 Cruzes are incredibly subpar cars. The 1.4T has most of the gutlessness and poor fuel economy of an Iron Duke without any of the longevity, no two trim panels/body panels line up, it looked dated when it came out, there is no rear seat legroom, and whatever dollar store camp chair-looking material they put on the dashboard is absolutely atrocious.